Brockton Neighborhood Health Center is a community health center south of Boston that serves a diverse population of mostly low-income patients. We are located in a beautiful new building in downtown Brockton. In October, 2010 we received a Federal grant of $11.3 million to add an additional 24,000 square feet on to our four year old building. This addition will be completed in the summer of 2012. We will be adding four floors on top of our new urgent care center, which is an extension of our building that opened in July of 2010. The new floors will include adult medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, behavioral health, optometry, and dental services. We are using NextGen’s Electronic Health Record.

Our adult medicine physicians admit to Good Samaritan Medical Center. The hospital has an intensivist program so we do not follow our patients in the ICU or CCU. The hospital also offers Hospitalist coverage nights and weekends. We have our own hospitalists weekdays during the day. Our primary care physicians cover weekends on a rotating basis. We anticipate the rotation will be every sixth or seventh week. Evening hospital coverage is almost entirely just infrequent phone calls from the answering service as the hospital’s hospitalist covers inpatients. The primary care/urgent care physicians are required to admit and round on inpatients on their weekend until 6:30 p.m. each day.

We are happy to sponsor J-1 waivers and green card applications for H1b candidates.

Because of the major expansion project, we are recruiting for several primary care physicians to start in the summer or fall of 2012. We are also recruiting for one physician for our Urgent Care department.

The following is a brief summary of benefits at BNHC:

Health insurance—We have Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, which has been ranked number 1 in the nation in quality and service five years in a row. We pay 75% of a family or single plan for Full Time employees, starting the first of the month after hire.

Dental— Delta Dental, starts at 6 months. We pay 50% family or single for full time employees.

Malpractice—fully covered through Federal Tort Claims Act.

Short term and long term disability—starts after one year. We pay long term in full and share cost of short term.

Life—We pay in full for coverage equal to your annual salary, after one year. You can purchase additional insurance for yourself and family members if you want to.

Earned time—34 days per year, includes vacation, sick, personal, holiday. This starts accruing after 3 months so first year accrual is less than 34 days. Having paid time off in one pot makes it a lot more flexible.

CME—One week paid time if you sign a one-year contract. We also pay up to $1000 per year in course fees.

Hospital dues—we pay in full.

Pension—after 1 year, we match your contribution up to 3% of salary. You can invest more if you wish. You have many investment options. The rep from the pension company will help you sort out all the options.

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40+ Hours / Week

Our starting salary, effective 7/1/12, will be $165,000. In addition, we offer up to $10,000 per year in incentive bonuses and the opportunity to increase base salary to $180,000 upon completion of incentive goals.

The National Health Services Corps is currently offering a generous loan repayment program of $60,000 for a 2 year commitment up to $170,000 for a 5 year commitment. There is also a state loan repayment program in Massachusetts that will pay up to $25,000 per year in loan repayment up to a total of $75,000, for physicians who practice in a community health center. Loan repayment is not available to physicians on visas.

Good Samaritan Medical Center is supporting our recruitment efforts by paying up to $10,000 in relocation costs, up to $5000 in legal fees for physicians with visa issues, and up to $1000 for interview expenses.

Send resume, cover letter, & 3 reference letters to
Contact Sue Joss at josss@bnhc.org

Assists HIV positive patients in adhering with visit schedules, and medication and treatment regimens. Provides health education and counseling to HIV clients according to established policies and procedures. Coordinates and monitors medical referrals.

• Provides ongoing education and support to HIV clients regarding medication and treatment regimens, including information on resistance, dosing and side effects.
• Assists clients in establishing routines in taking medication.
• Provides education on medication and treatment to client’s family and support network as identified by the client.
• Reviews lab reports and assists clients in maintaining lab test schedule.
• Assists clients with medical referrals both within and outside of health center.
• Monitors referrals and assists the interdisciplinary team in following up with clients.
• Participates in a multidisciplinary team and acts as a liaison as appropriate.
• Participates in Project outreach activities.
• Assist patients and families in the adjustment of problems related to or precipitated by illness and/or HIV diagnosis.
• Works with the interdisciplinary HIV Services Department to provide culturally congruent services.
• Documents all activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma required; LPN required, RN preferred.
• Experience working with individuals living with HIV/AIDS preferred.
• Bilingual strongly preferred (Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole or Spanish).
• Position also requires the ability to work with a wide range of professionals, including a multi-disciplinary medical team.
• Knowledge of HIV/AIDS inclusive of education, prevention, and treatment preferred.
• Basic computer skills

Send or Email Resume and Cover Letter to HR at
Resumes@bnhc.org or FAX TO 508-559-5073.

Provides individual- and group-level support and information to adolescents living with HIV/AIDS. Plans and facilitates monthly support groups and serves as a member of the HIV interdisciplinary team at Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC).

• Provides information and promotes self empowerment, skills and resources to improve self-care, quality of life, adherence and satisfaction of care.
• Provides individual level counseling for newly diagnosed clients and existing clients who are struggling with accepting their HIV diagnosis.
• Meets with newly diagnosed clients and clients referred from the HIV interdisciplinary team to assist with health care system navigation.
• Facilitates or co-facilitates monthly Adolescent HIV Support Group.
• Provides all services in accordance with the BPHC/MDPH Guidelines for Peer Support Programs
• Assist patients and families in the adjustment of problems related to or precipitated by illness and/or HIV diagnosis.
• Participates in Project outreach activities.

• Must demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Training in HIV, Behavioral Risk Assessments, and Peer Support Counseling preferred.
• Multilingual in English, Spanish, Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese and/or Haitian Creole preferred.
• HIV-positive adolescent preferred.

Send or Email Resume and Cover Letter to HR at
Resumes@bnhc.org or FAX TO 508-559-5073.

Provides nutritional education to patients living with HIV/AIDS in collaboration with multi-disciplinary HIV Services team.

• Provides ongoing nutritional education and support to HIV-positive patients including nutritional advice regarding conditions specific to HIV/AIDS such as lipodystrophy, malabsorption, loss of appetite, and metabolic abnormalities.
• Monitors patient compliance with nutritional recommendations. Works within the multi-disciplinary team to develop strategies to assist patients who are not following through with treatment recommendations.

• Strong background in patient education. Experience working with HIV/AIDS patients strongly preferred.
• Bilingual strongly preferred.

Send or Email Resume and Cover Letter to HR at
Resumes@bnhc.org or FAX TO 508-559-5073.

The Charge Nurse is responsible for the proper and adequate day to day functioning of the clinic. Oversees the nursing areas on the adult floor, ensures efficient patient flow, does daily nursing assignment, nurse visits, triages, patient care, patient issues, and staff issues.

• Maintains a professional environment in a multi-provider, multidiscipline organization.
• Maintains a patient centered environment including but not limited to:
  • Provision of care and advocate for patients of all ages and their families based on prudent nursing judgment and acceptable standards of practice.
  • Efficient patient flow, assisting providers, supervision and direction of nursing staff.
• Performs tasks and procedures within the scope of a registered nurse (R.N.) and legal guidelines of the nurse practice act. Adheres to Board of Nursing regulations.
• Is budget conscious and maintains continual effectiveness without compromise.
• Performs nursing tasks in all clinical areas.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current state licensure to practice in Massachusetts.
• Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certified.
• Must have 3 years equivalent FTE experience
• Bilingual preferred.

Send or Email Resume and Cover Letter to HR at
Resumes@bnhc.org or FAX TO 508-559-5073.

The EHR Clinical Analyst will be responsible for meeting CMS Meaningful Use requirements through the use of NextGen’s EHR and providing training of EHR to users. Additionally the Clinical Analyst will oversee all of BNHC’s EHR reporting and will also lead a cross departmental audit team to ensure the proper and appropriate use of the EHR and the data produced.

• The Clinical Analyst will use NextGen’s Health Quality Measures tool to assess our compliance with Meaningful Use measures. This position will be responsible for overseeing adherence by providers to an EHR workflow which successfully uses NextGen to achieve the selected Meaningful Use measures.
• BNHC will be a applying for Stage 1 Meaningful Use this year. In addition to Meaningful Use, BNHC is participating in Patient Center Medical Home, and applying for NCQA Certification. The Clinical Analyst will play an important role in each of these initiatives working with team members to ensure the quality of our data.
• This position will also be in charge of training new clinical staff in the NextGen EHR and provide refresher training to existing staff. The Clinical Analyst will develop an EHR training course to provide a consistent method of instruction.
• In addition to overseeing the EHR Health Quality Measures tool, the Clinical Analyst will be responsible for additional EHR reporting including assuring data quality for the Uniform Data System report and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Center CHIA DRVS system.
• The Clinical Analysts will be responsible for leading an audit team with the goal of ensuring maximum efficiency and effectiveness in the use of the EHR, compliance with all company standard practices and policies, and compliance with all laws and regulations.

• Minimum of two years’ experience with an EHR, preferably NextGen. NextGen certification would be ideal.
• Minimum of two years clinical experience. RN or LPN would be ideal.
• Familiarity with the concept of Meaningful Use and its implementation.
• Excellent patience and customer service skills with MDs, NPs, MAs and other users.
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
• Ability to attend conferences and workshops for further education to expand and improve EHR skills.

Email Resume and Cover Letter to IT at
ITResumes@bnhc.org

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center is seeking clinical social workers to join our busy and growing outpatient mental health department! Primary responsibility of this position is to provide diagnostic assessments, individual, group and family therapy with a culturally diverse, high risk population. Clinicians will work under the direction of the Mental Health Director in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of primary care physicians, psychiatry, nurses, and social workers. Evening and weekend hours are available.

Masters in clinical social work, mental health, psychology or related major with an independent license required.  Must have at least three years of direct clinical experience.  Multilingual in English, Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, French and/or Spanish preferred. 

Negotiable, minimum of 10 hours; 2-3 part time positions available

Send letter of interest and resume to Resumes@bnhc.org